{"product_id":"marxism-and-form-by-fredric-jameson-9780691013114","title":"Marxism and Form","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor more than thirty years, Fredric Jameson has been one of the most productive, wide-ranging, and distinctive literary theorists in the United States and the Anglophone world. \u003cem\u003eMarxism and Form\u003c\/em\u003e provided a pioneering account of the work of the major European Marxist theorists—T. W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Ernst Bloch, Georg Lukacs, and Jean-Paul Sartre—work that was, at the time, largely neglected in the English-speaking world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough penetrating readings of each theorist, Jameson developed a critical mode of engagement that has had tremendous influence. He provided a framework for analyzing the connection between art and the historical circumstances of its making—in particular, how cultural artefacts distort, repress, or transform their circumstances through the abstractions of aesthetic form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJameson's presentation of the critical thought of this Hegelian Marxism provided a stark alternative to the Anglo-American tradition of empiricism and humanism. It would later provide a compelling alternative to poststructuralism and deconstruction as they became dominant methodologies in aesthetic criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne year after \u003cem\u003eMarxism and Form\u003c\/em\u003e, Princeton published Jameson's \u003cem\u003eThe Prison-House of Language\u003c\/em\u003e (1972), which provided a thorough historical and philosophical description of formalism and structuralism. Both books remain central to Jameson's main intellectual legacy: describing and extending a tradition of Western Marxism in cultural theory and literary interpretation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47606721609964,"sku":"9780691013114","price":114.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/7dd7b8ede4ee9a81c22085fc5b73890d.jpg?v=1778191613","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/marxism-and-form-by-fredric-jameson-9780691013114","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}